Yazar: Karen Rae Levine

As the Literary Editor of The Crisis, the largest African American periodical of the era, Fauset discovered and cultivated writers, including Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen. Fauset was the Literary Editor of The Brownies” Book, the first magazine dedicated to entertaining and empowering African American children. For more than two decades, Fauset shared influential articles, essays, and reviews, and worked tirelessly as an activist for race and gender equality. Jessie Fauset was published more than any other African American woman of the Harlem Renaissance.